Photocredit: Paul Brehem

 

Searching for unusual wildlife, I explore some of the lesser known parts of my home continent.  Starting off in a jurassic haven of pterodactyl-like bats and prehistoric fossil fish in the coup-stricken Comoros archipelago, then the bubble-blowing forest elephants and

 

Showing now on Animal Planet

 

My first job in conservation - shortly after University - was with Blythe Loutit, a very special friend and founder of Save the Rhino Trust in Namibia.  I was based with her in Khorixas in the hinterland of the Skeleton Coast running a crafts for conservation